
Ioli Sifakaki, a student at the Royal College of Art, made ceramic tableware set cast from her own body and invited a dozen men to a feast. The dinner service was inspired by the Greek myth of Tantalus, who, after revealing the secrets of the gods, cut up his son, boiled him, and served him as food as a sacrifice for the gods.

Sifakaka told Dezeen: “The ritual of eating is a key element in my work… By casting myself, I copy, dismantle and offer parts of me, in order to provoke new, unusual relationships between the maker and the user.” Note that there’s no silverware — they had to eat with their hands.

July 25th, 2009 - 9:11 pm
this is awesome, although for some reason it feels like a mass orgy…